Program Management Office Consultant

Tarka Talent; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Tarka Talent is seeking a commercially-focused PMO Consultant to provide independent oversight of a major value creation agenda. This role sits at the centre of strategic transformation, operational improvement, and business performance.

You’ll work with Functional Leaders, Cluster Leaders, and FP&A, bringing together operational and financial insight to identify risks and strengthen delivery confidence. London-based, hybrid work with a 6-month contract and potential extension or permanent

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience within a PMO function, from either consulting or in-house.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, P&L and EBITDA improvement levers.
• Proven experience overseeing cross-functional portfolios and tracking benefits against financial commitments.
• Confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and able to constructively challenge colleagues when required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a consolidated portfolio view of value creation initiatives, linking activity to budgets and financial targets.
• Monitor forecast and realised benefits, identifying gaps between initiative commitments and actual P&L performance.
• Challenge initiative owners where delivery confidence falls or benefits are at risk, supporting practical recovery planning.
• Provide executive-level reporting covering progress, risks, benefits, performance gaps and delivery confidence.
• Where required, take hands-on project management responsibility for high-risk or strategically critical initiatives.

Skills

PMO experience

Budgeting

Forecasting

P&L

Portfolio mgmt

EBITDA

Job description

• Day Rate: £350 - £450 per day (outside IR35)
• Location / Working Model: London / Hybrid
• Contract start: Early October
• Contract duration: 6 months (potential to extend and/or discuss permanent options)

We're seeking a commercially-focused PMO Consultant to provide independent oversight of a major value creation agenda. This is an opportunity to sit at the centre of strategic transformation, operational improvement, and business performance.

You’ll work closely with Functional Leaders, Cluster Leaders, and FP&A, bringing together operational and financial insight to identify risks, challenge assumptions and strengthen delivery confidence. With exposure to Executive Committee, Board, and investors, you’ll have a visible role providing governance, transparency, and performance challenge needed to ensure strategic initiatives deliver against agreed financial and business outcomes.

Role Highlights

• Maintain a consolidated portfolio view of value creation initiatives, linking activity to strategic objectives, budgets and financial targets.
• Monitor forecast and realised benefits, identifying gaps between initiative commitments and actual P&L performance.
• Challenge initiative owners where delivery confidence falls or benefits are at risk, supporting practical recovery planning.
• Provide executive-level reporting covering progress, risks, benefits, performance gaps and delivery confidence.
• Where required, take hands-on project management responsibility for high-risk or strategically critical initiatives.

You Will Need

• 3-5 years’ experience within a PMO function, gained from either consulting or in-house.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, P&L and EBITDA improvement levers.
• Proven experience overseeing cross-functional portfolios and tracking benefits against financial commitments.
• Confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and able to constructively challenge colleagues when required.

Why You’ll Love It

• High-profile role with direct visibility across strategic business performance.
• Opportunity to influence how value creation is governed and realised.
• Regular exposure to Executive Committee, Board and senior stakeholders.
• Broad remit spanning transformation, operational improvement and financial performance.
• Scope to make a measurable contribution to EBITDA and wider business outcomes.

In line with the Equality Act 2010, we strive to create and maintain a working environment in which everyone can make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, with decisions based on merit.

Due to a high number of applicants, we are only able to respond to successful candidates